Kevin Systrom Quotes

The way people communicate is changing, and no one knows this better than teens. We are using images to talk to each other, to communicate what we're doing, what we're thinking, and to tell stories.

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• One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Want
  • Humanity

• In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Father
  • Year

• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Age
  • Ideas
  • Class

• I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Music
  • Age
  • Gift

• You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Amazing
  • Like
  • Characters

• I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • School
  • America

• At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Music
  • Done
  • Enjoy

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fall

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Kind
  • Government
  • Husband

• I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Gangster

• Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Famous

• You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Trying
  • Peace
  • Problems

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Arts

• Creative activity is one of the few self rewarding activities. Being creative is like being in love!

  

  Woodie Flowers
  • Love
  • Creative
  • Activity

• I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Years
  • New
  • New York

• We’re not a band that has big shows with pyros and stuff, it’s more about the emotional energy and venue so a very emotional, powerful show. That’s what I hope for at least.

  

  Jonas Renkse Bloodbath
  • Energy
  • Emotional
  • Shows

• First, I wanna say 'peace' to my mother. She's not here but I gotta give a 'peace out' to her because I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my mother.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Mother
  • Peace
  • Say

• The way people communicate is changing, and no one knows this better than teens. We are using images to talk to each other, to communicate what we're doing, what we're thinking, and to tell stories.

  

  Kevin Systrom
  • People
  • Thinking